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Finally the family, unable to save enough money for a deposit on an apartment, moved into Plaza Place, emergency transitional housing for families in Charlotte. "A lot of things run through your mind when you don't have a place to live," says Tamey. "You wonder how did you get this way? How did this happen?" The kids felt the pain too. Brandon, a bright child with a sharp mind, hungered for attention and grew angry at times. Without any peers, Nicole, a pretty girl with a sweet smile and a quick wit, was adrift and alone. They...
...allocated to a worldwide fund to compensate innocent depositors who lost their money when the bank collapsed. The remaining half has been reserved for a U.S. contingency fund to shore up financial institutions that B.C.C.I. secretly controlled. Washington regulators fear that the already depleted guarantee fund at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation could be endangered by banking problems at the Independence Bank in Encino, Calif., and at Washington's First American. Their concern was so acute that authorities immediately transferred $5 million of the forfeited money to the Encino bank to prevent its collapse...
...answer. For the sixth year in a row, the home-furnishing chain is offering its Rent-a-Tree program to American customers. Conceived in Europe during the 1970s and introduced in the company's seven U.S. stores as they opened, it works like this: for $20 -- a $10 deposit and a $10 rental fee -- and a signed lease agreement, a customer can walk out with a fresh 6-to-10-ft. Douglas fir from Pennsylvania. Last year the program was a resounding success: 20,000 trees were leased. IKEA expects to rent 30,000 this year. As a bonus this...
Saccoccia wasn't as lucky -- or as careful. When his cash deposits became suspiciously large, banks tipped off the IRS. Then, in a display of cooperation rarely seen in the financial industry, 10 banks agreed to continue taking the money as federal agents watched. Saccoccia's final mistake may have been his failure, quite literally, to wash the greenbacks before laundering them. In March 1990, Saccoccia and an aide delivered to a bank $53,000 packaged in 53 bundles. The currency was tested by a cocaine-sniffing German shepherd named Basko, which promptly went "bonkers," says an agent...
There are many reasons to go the extra mile in government service, but leave it to banking regulator L. William Seidman to come up with a new one: because the White House didn't want him to. When the curmudgeonly chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation stepped down last week at the end of a six-year term, he disclosed that he would have left last year but for the efforts of the Bush Administration to cashier...